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Sweet music video

mathowie — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:26:55 -0800

The video for Naive New Beaters' song "Live Good" has a mind-blowing amount of green-screen going on, to good effect.

ASL Music Videos

five fresh fish — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:03:38 -0800

American Sign Language Music Videos I'm not entirely sure they're ASL. Maybe they're just SL. Any which way you dice it, though, they're great. If you're entertained, do a search: there are lots more of them on YouTube. And just for kicks, Natalie Imbruglia's Torn, signed comedically.

An Accessible Eden

progosk — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:32:10 -0800

The video (50mb .mov) for Sigur Rós' new single Gobble di gook was shot by Arni&Kinski, inspired by (and in collaboration with) Ryan McGinley (previously), discussed photographer, chronicler of stars, commercial short film (60mb .mpg) director, and (apparently) Jonsi's former paramour. (Some links NSFW.)

Weezer - Pork and Beans

Plutor — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:21:08 -0800

The music video for Pork and Beans by Weezer is an homage to every web video meme. Ever. [via]

Pierre Precieuse

scrump — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:54:59 -0800

The unusual video for Tais Toi Mon Coeur, by Dionysos, featuring Olivia Ruiz. Some backstory. Dionysos, led by Mathias Malzeau, has a history of interesting video productions, and the story behind "La Mecanique du Coeur" is being adapted by Luc Besson.

Again and Again

fungible — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:59:48 -0800

OS X as music video. (SLYT) Dennis Liu's interpretation of "Again and Again" by the Bird and the Bee, using a particular operating system as inspiration. It does feel kind of like an Apple ad, but it's quite creative.

The Re Generation

adamrice — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:54:49 -0800

Riffing on the 1970s as the "Me Generation," Esquire Magazine once referred to the 1980s as the "Re Generation," making the case that all of our popular music, fashion, etc was being recycled from previous decades. They had no idea. Since then, the flood of entertainment has deposited many more sedimentary layers of pop culture. Today, musicians and music videos mine these condensed strata of modern media as raw materials, producing works of hyper-compressed cultural references. Case in point: The Scissor Sisters' "Comfortably Numb", Justice's "DVNO", and The Darkness' "I Believe in a Thing Called Love." In "Comfortably Numb," the music is really where all the references appear; in "DVNO," it's in the video (and the Wikipedia article attempts to catalog them). "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" stuffs a bewildering number of winks and references into both the music and visuals.

Take your forms wrestled from the void and get the hell out

1f2frfbf — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:37:48 -0800

Wayne White's paintings Wayne Who? He left Tennessee to study at the New York School of Visual Arts with Art Speigelman (he posed holding a broomstick for some of the characters in Maus) and Red Grooms. He came back to Tennessee to do puppetry work for a children's show called Mrs. Cabobble's Caboose, (5th link down, mpg) which in turn caught the attention of CBS who hired him to do the set direction for Pee Wee's Playhouse (I'll defer to this excellent post for Pee Wee videos), for which he played Mr Kite, Randy and Roger the Monster. Where else have you seen his work? The video for Peter Gabriel's "Big Time", and the video for the Smashing Pumpkin's "Tonight, Tonight". This was inspired by my tiny little comment here and he seems to be mentioned in passing here and here. Also: Waxy weighs in along with jonson, his IMDb profile and his Wikipedia entry. Not for use with some sets, consult doctor before taking internally.

Make your own flag!

hermitosis — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:02:55 -0800

Michel Gondry on the making of "Declare Independence" (also, YouTube), his seventh collaboration with Björk. It makes their romp with a Paint Piano a couple years ago seem oddly prescient. Their previous collaborations: Human Behavior Hyperballad Army of Me Isobel Jóga Bachelorette

Some faaabulous music videos.

hjo3 — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:39:16 -0800

Now that it's OK2BGAY, you can totally meet up with other dudes for Soccer Practice and hardly anyone cares. Can I get a What What?